Submitted 5 days ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Because your garden variety unhealthy american who survives off fast food and takeout eats very, very little fiber. So they eat something with beans in it and they are totally unprepared for a significant amount of fiber.
I’ve also heard theories that because it’s already in little pieces people don’t chew it well, which also will upset your stomach.
Because joking about Mexican food causing the shits is a common practice, and so is trying to get cheap laughs in online forums.
Seeing as it’s so similar to “Montezuma’s Revenge” I’m betting that you’re right, and it’s all just racism.
No dude it’s about having the shits, not fucking racism.
Some people can’t handle spice.
Others just don’t get enough fiber in their diet, so the fiber heavy Taco Bell food (beans, rice, even the meat has high fiber additives cut with the beef) makes them take a normal shit but it’s looser than their constpiated ass is used to and call it diarrhea.
Taco bell has spice? Since when?
Americans have weird diets. For decades, they joked about how eating Chinese food makes you hungry an hour later, and how eating any food with fiber gives the shits. They also wake up in the middle of the night to eat a full meal.
You almost sound disappointed
They use sub-standard ingredients in the least responsible way possible, and have been the subject of multiple food banks and recalls going back to the 80’s, when I’m pretty sure they called out for using lower grade (by USDA standards) meat.
Then at some point they got caught for using Horse Meat in their food, and I think that sort of clenches the it.
Taco bell was constantly having e coli outbreaks in the 00’s and before.
That was once in 2006. Taco Bell has been pretty strict about internal auditing for health concerns for ages and was the first who gets their lettuce from their supplier whom a lot of other restaurants use and haven’t done anything yet. I used to work at one back close to the 2006 outbreak, and since then we’ve seen more McDonald’s outbreaks and I’m not surprised at all.
OP I suspect you have not had your 30th birthday yet.
Because making jokes about “foreign” cuisine is easy and doesn’t need context when the whole herd has a general xenophobic understanding. See: Westernised Chinese food and headaches from MSG (a total myth)
Quoted "foreign because no, , Taco Bell is not actually Mexican, but ask your nearest “taco bell shits” joker if there’s a difference and they’ll say it’s the same end result. Shit, ask the joker if they even eat Taco Bell and half will say no or give some “only when I’m drunk” explanation.
My mexican+beer shits are the same as my wings+beer shits, brat+beer shits, and steak+whiskey shits. AKA my weekend shits, where I tend to have less vegetables and more alcohol.
Add in variability with the gen pop for probably adding more hot sauce and having more dairy than their usual diet.
It’s low in fiber and greasy. When your body is conditioned to expect whole foods, stuff like that gets shot right back out.
When your body is conditioned to expect whole foods
Uh, sir. This is ‘Murica. Our diet consists purely of ground beef disks or ground mystery meat tubes with either red, white, or yellow squirts on top. Accompany that with a big-gulp sized glass of Coca-cola. Or, even better, an ice cold—I’m talking Rocky Mountain ice cold—beer.
Wait, another comment said it’s because it’s high in fibre. Seems like it’s a meme that nobody actually knows why, or even experiences it?
No idea why anyone would say that. A soft taco has like 2g of fiber. Here’s the menu. Feel free to click around and prove me wrong but nothing I saw on the best sellers list had more than like 5g and those are things meant to be shared
Out of curiosity: does the chain exist anywhere outside of the US?
Went broke in Canada at most locations. That shit was fucking BLAND.
Yes, they are in Asia, Australia, North and South America, and a few countries in Europe. That said, I’ve never seen them.
I haven’t either. We’re lucky, it happens often.
You probably get enough fiber in your diet. Most people who eat a lot of fast food, don’t get enough fiber. That’s generally what causes the Taco Bell shits, not the low quality.
Mexican food is more spicy. That’s all. The scandals mentioned in other comments are easily debunked.
It’s just spicy food
Spicy?
Taco Bell?
I mean their hottest sauce packets are not even Tabasco hot.
I’m not super spice tolerant and it’s WAY down on the hot scale.
TB is bland AF.
I mean their hottest sauce packets are not even Tabasco hot.
Diablo sauce is pretty hot. Definitely hotter than Tobasco (and doesn’t taste like fucking gasoline looks Tobasco does).
switcheroo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you don’t eat enough fiber-- which a lot of Americans do not do-- suddenly eating a lot of it will cause it to speed run through your system. Beans are high in fiber.
As far as burning shits, that’s just weakness to hot sauce.